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Make the Market Work for People and Planet

  • carbon pricing
  • science based targets
  • Economics
  • Business
  • Finance
Skyrise office buildings in Montréal, Canada
  • carbon pricing
  • science based targets
  • Economics
  • Business
  • Finance
Insights

INFOGRAPHIC: 4 Ways to Make Money in Land Restoration

  • Forests
  • restoration
father with daughter in flower field
  • Forests
  • restoration
Insights

Palm Oil Mill Data: A Step Towards Transparency

  • Climate
  • Food
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • mapping
  • commodities
Palm oil plantation
  • Climate
  • Food
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • mapping
  • commodities
Outcomes
Indian girl tends to solar panel
  • Climate
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Outcomes

Chinese Cities Begin Turning Sludge into Energy

  • Top Outcome: 2015
Power plant worker in Tianjin, China
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Outcomes
People at a workshop roundtable in Congo
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Conference attendees at United Nations
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Group of men examining replanted crops
  • restoration
  • Top Outcome: 2015
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Millions in India Join Movement to Reclaim City Streets

  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Public gathering in India
  • Cities
  • Urban Development
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Outcomes

Over 300 Cities Take Action to Measure and Manage Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • GHG Protocol
  • Cities
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo, Japan
  • GHG Protocol
  • Cities
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Outcomes

More Global Organizations and Investment Firms Use Aqueduct to Manage Water Risk

  • Aqueduct
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • floods
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Flooded street in Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Aqueduct
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • floods
  • Top Outcome: 2015

WRI Helps Guide $4 Billion in Investment in Sustainable Urban Transport in Brazil

  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • Top Outcome: 2015
People walking near Brazil public transportation
  • transportation
  • Urban Mobility
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Outcomes

Consumer Goods Forum Commits to Halve Food Waste by 2025

  • corporate sustainability
  • Top Outcome: 2015
Two green trashbags filled with waste
  • corporate sustainability
  • Top Outcome: 2015
News

STATEMENT: Unilever’s Carbon Positive Goal is “Audacious and Inspiring”

  • Business
  • electric grid
  • Energy
  • renewable energy
  • Business
  • electric grid
  • Energy
  • renewable energy

A New Strategy to Improve Water Quality—One Targeted Watershed at a Time

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
More than 15,000 streams, rivers, and lakes are too polluted with nutrient runoff to support wildlife, be enjoyed recreationally, or serve as a drinking water source. Photo credit: USDA
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
Initiatives
This website serves as an information portal about eutrophication—the over-enrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—a leading threat to water quality around the world. Explore our interactive map and learn more.

Can Nutrient Trading Shrink the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone?

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Dead fish resulting from toxins or oxygen depletion in Lake Binder, Iowa. Photo credit: Dr. Jennifer L. Graham, U.S. Geological Survey
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
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